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KCHT MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUKE V Wcdnttdar. July 23, 1952 MEDFODwJTRIB UK1 American Olympic Squad Seeks To Overcome Lead Rolled Up by Russians Helsinki (U.R) The Un ited States scored a 1-2-3 sweep in ihe Olympic 200 me ter dash Wednesday, a 1-2 vic tory in ihe javelin throw and alio won a rowing champion ship as six Olympic and two world records tumbled. Andy Slanfield tied the Olympic 200 meter record of 20.7 seconds, making the sec ond Olympic record equalled today. Helsinki U.PJ Walt Ash baugh. East Liverpool, Ohio, and Jim Gerhardt, San Antonio, Tex., qualified easily Wednesday for the hop, step and jump competi tion in the Olympic Games. Franklin (Bud) Held, Lakeside, Calif., qualified in javelin throw. Gearhardt reached 49 feet, 1.8 inches and Ashbaugh did 47 feet, 10.44 inches, each on his first try, as the fifth day's Olympic compe tition got underway under cloudy skies that carried a threat of rain. The qualifying distance for the hop, step and jump event was 14.55 meters 47 feet, 8.88 inches. Finals in the event were scheduled for Wednesday after noon. Leading U.S. Hopes Sprint star Andy Stanfield and Navy's unbeaten eight-oared crew carried the United States' chief hories Wednesday for gold medal victories that would cut down or wipe out Russia s team leadershiD in the Olympic games The Soviets, who scored the bulk of their points in gymnas tics two days ago, carried a 21V& noint lead in the competition with 136V4 points to 115 for the U. S. In the javelin throw, Held tossed the spear 225 feet, 1.68 inches on his second try and ad vanced to the afternoon finals. A distance of 64 meters, 209 feet, 11.76 inches, was required to qualify. Three Americans were entered in each event. American Wrestler Loses The first American casualty of the day was heavyweight wres tler Bill Kerlslake of Cleveland, who lost a decision to Bertil Antonsson of Sweden, two points to one, and was eliminated. Cy Young, Modesto, Calif., and Bill Miller, Phoenix, Ariz., also qualified in the javelin, putting all three Americans in the final. Toivo Hyytiainen of Finland, the favorite in the javelin, led all qualifiers with a toss of 233 feet, 7.68 inches. Russia went into Tuesday's competition with a whopping 56 point lead in the team compe tition 128 to 72 for the U. S. the result of having reaped a harvest of points in gymnastics. U. S. Winners Cut Lead However, the U. S. sliced that down as Bob Richards, Laverne, Calif., and Don Laz of Illinois finished one-two in the pole vault; Mai Whitfield won the 800-meter run, and Sam Iness, Tulare, Calif.; Jim Dillon, Au burn, N. Y., and Fortune Gor- dien, San Francisco, finished one-three-four in the discus throw. Richards and Iness set new records for their events, while Whitfield equalled the record he set in 1948. P 7 1 -v OT, CI ft. lad1 "J gSITiL-- 4 4& 1 f LOSE FINISH Lindy Remigino (981), third from right, of Hartford, Conn., wins the 100-meter dash to the Olympic Games at Helsinki. Following close on the winner's heels is Herb McKenley (295), second from riaht, of Jamaica, who finished second. Britain's McDonald Bailey, second from left, was Th. no w9 n close that all three men were clocked at 10.4. me winner was aeiermineo. oy WW w " photo of finish, Retriever Club Slates Workouts At Lake Sunday The Rogue Valley Retriever club will conduct a workout for Medford dogs Sunday, July 27, at 4 p.m. at Hoover lake, mem bers of the organization an nounced today. Persons interest ed in entering their dogs in the event are invited to attend. The Rogue Valley club has scheduled a joint trial with the Shasta Cascade Retriever club of Klamath Falls here Sunday, August 17. The joint meet is an annual event between the two clubs for rotating trophies. The trials are conducted under Amer ican Kennel club regulations. The Klamath Falls club is ex pected to have a large entry in the joint trials. Members of the local club are now working will be dependent upon water and weather conditions and will be announced at a later date, club members said. Sport Parade By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer Yesterday's Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 7-8. Cleveland 3-1 Boston 4. Chicago 2 (13 innings) Detroit 1. Washington 0 Pihaledlphia 3, St. Louis 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 14-8. Pittsburgh 4-1 New York 3. St. Louis 2 Brooklyn 7. Cincinnati 6 (10 In nings) Boston 8. Chicago 4 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland 18. San Diego 3 Hollywood 11, Sacramento 4 Oakland 3-8. San Francisco 1-S Los Angeles-Seattle, postponed, rain WESTERN INTERNATIONAL Salem 8, Yakima 6 Wenatchee 3. Tri-Citv 1 Spokane at Vancouver and Lewis. ton at victoria, postponed, rain. Coquille Has New Manager For Week-End Series Here The Coquille Loggers, who will be here Saturday and Sun day for a two game Southwest Oregon league baseball series with the Medford Cheney Studs, will be sporting a new manager and new two players. For the first time in many years, the Coquille nine will not be under the direction of Bill Fortier, who resigned last week and turned the helm over to Dave Douglas, fancy fielding first baseman. Since its last league appear ance, the Logger club has been strengthened by the addition of two players from the fast Ca nadian league. They are Don Hlnchberger, outfielder, and John Bilbrey, pitcher. Douglas will draw his starting pitchers for the two-game set from a list which includes Aldon Wilkie, one-time Pittsburgh Pir ate and Pacific Coast league hurler; Dick Gilson, Doug Weeks, Bob Allard, Skeeter Ellis and Bilbrey. In his last league start, Wilkie set the Roseburg nine down with one run and five hits. He need ed only 80 pitches to rack up the victory. Rounding out the probable starting lineup are Roy Harring ton, catcher; Douglas, first base; Lee Wert, second base; Ament, shortstop; Taylor, third base, and Joe Marchand, Hinchberger and Humble in the outfield. Douglas, Wert and Humble are the team's leading hitters. Douglas is currently leading the league's first basemen in field ing with a flossy .996 average, compiled on 254 putouts and 12 assists and only one error. ' By OSCAR FRALEY Helsinki U.R) The Tulare, Calif.. Chamber of Commerce had better get on the ball, be cause it has an unknown cele brity on its hands today and a chance to become the largest city in the United States. The magnificent nonentity is a courteous young giant named Sim Iness. All he did Tuesday as the shadows settled over Helsin ki was to break the Olympic discus record with seven straight throws and boost the mark to 180 feet 6V2 inches. Everybody in sports knows that Bob Mathias, the Olympic decathlon champion, hails from Tulare. Sim, in case you haven't heard, and you probably haven't, also is from that village of vitamins. Two Lovable Monsters But of even more import to the average father in the United states are the vital statistics on these two lovable monsters. Ma thias is a well publicized lad of six feet, three inches and some 220 pounds. But get a load of this Iness lad. He's six feet, six inches and scales 245 dressed for the discus market. Any spot which produces prize packages of this calibre for doting fathers who dream of junior's future athletic exploits is a double-dyed cinch to be in undated by dreaming daddies with their entire families in tow. And it's a cinch that Sim's daddy is just about delirious Wednesday. For the big guy was better than sensational tossing the steel-rimmed platter. Shattered Record All he had to beat was Adolfo Consolini, the overstuffed Ital ian who held the Olympic rec ord, burly Fortune Gordien the world record holder from the United States, and just about every other great discus jockey in captivity. Consolini's Olympic record was 172 feet, 13A inches. So Iness stepped out there before 50,000 fans and broke that mark on each of his seven throws. The best was 180 feet, 6V inches eight feet 434 inches better than the old mark and four feet, 1V inches better than the second place Consolini could do. " Talking later, the 22-year-old Sim became Tulare's best real estate salesman since the days when the Spanish land grants were voided. For he disclosed that at 13, when he entered high school he was six feet, two inch es tall and weighed 210 pounds At 18 when he graduated from high school, he was six feet, six and weighed 230 pounds. Piano Toler So I can tell you right now that I'm taking my little bruiser, all nine months old of him, and heading for Tulare. Sim has JUST LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS! GREAT STRAIGHT BOURBON sn s s $460 0n of America's top-sailing bourbons. ..famous since 1883 STRAIGHT.BOURBON WHISKEY 85JR00E NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS. CORPORATION,, NEW YORK. N.Jf, promised to carry our piano and I'm dealing with Mathias to tote our four trunks and six suit cases. There's just one question I want the Tulare Chamber of Commerce to answer: How do the fathers go about the difficult business of repri manding sons like those? That could b'e a real problem. Southern Oregon Junior Baseball The Ashland Pee Wee baseball team ran wild over the Medford Pee Wees here Monday to chalk up a 23 to 2 win. The Ashland nine outhit Medford by only a 7 to 1 margin, but took advan tage of 10 Medford errors and numerous passed balls to run up the score. First Inning Single Ruins No-Hit Effort SHORT SCORE: Ashland 23 7 2 Medford 2 7 10 M. Fiteh and Watrus; Albert. An derson and Barr. The first dark horse presiden tial candidate to be nominated and elected was James K. Polk in 1844. By UNITED PRESS It took only one pitch, the first one he threw, to ruin his no-hitter, but Virgil Trucks, the fire-ball guy of the Detroit Tig ers, was happy Wednesday to settle for a one-hit, 1 to 0 victory over the Senators that almost matched his no-hit effort against them last May 15. There were no dreams of matching the record of Allie Reynolds of the Yankees, only pitcher in American league his tory to hurl two no-hitters in a single season. Because Eddie Yost spoiled that with a leadoff single on Trucks' first pitch. Faced 29 Batters Thereafter, though, the right hander was magnificent, walk ing only three batters and retir ing two of them on double plays. Only 29 men came to bat. What was especially remark able about Trucks' performance was that he had been out of act ion since July 11 with a recur rence of his old shoulder injury. It was only his fourth victory against 11 defeats, but it also was significant that in addition to his no-hitter and one-hitter against Washington, he turned in a two-hitter against Philadel phia. Big Walt Dropo, hitting safely in his 11th straight game, drove in the winning run with a first inning single and collect ed two of the four hits off of Walt Masterson. Yanks Win Pair Trucks' tremendous showing overshadowed the onward march of the Yankees, who top-j ped the Indians twice, 7 to 3 and 8 to 1 ,to move five games ahead of the Red Sox, who defeated the White Sox 4 to 2 on rookie Dick Gernerfs two-run, 13th in ning homer, as Mickey McDer mott won his sixth game in a re lief role. 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